Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Unleashed- P15: The good news is Dreamweaver provides numerous windows, panels, inspectors, and toolbars for streamlining the way you build websites. The bad news, unfortunately, is that Dreamweaver provides numerous windows, panels, inspectors, and toolbars for streamlining the way you build websites. Why so many windows, panels, and so on, Dreamweaver is unprecedented in the feature set it provides, allowing developers complete control when building websites and applications | Figure . Drag asset favorites into their new folder. Creating New URL and Color Assets You can create new color and URL assets right within the Assets panel. To create new assets for either of these categories make sure you re within the Favorites section. To create a new color click the New Color button located toward the bottom of the Assets panel. You can also access that option by choosing the New Color option from the panel s Options menu located in the top-right corner of the panel. When you choose the new color command a swatch displays allowing you to choose a color as shown in Figure . Figure . You can easily create a new color asset from within the Assets panel. View full size image Finally after choosing a color you can highlight it in the Assets panel and give it a nickname. Creating a new link is just as easy Select the URL category and be sure to view the Favorites section. Toward the bottom of the panel click the New URL button which launches the Add URL dialog. Here you can define the nickname and the URL you want the asset to link to. Using Find and Replace One of the most useful Dreamweaver features is the Find and Replace dialog. Unlike most Find and Replace options included with word processing programs and the like the Dreamweaver Find and Replace dialog allows you to search and then replace elements within an entire site a current document selected text open documents a specific folder and even selected files within a site. Even better you can use the Find and Replace dialog as a way to search for elements within source code text within the Design or Code views text within specific tags or specific tags in general. Furthermore the Find and Replace dialog doesn t require you to have a page open to run it rather you can open the dialog at any time while Dreamweaver is open. To open the dialog choose Edit Find and Replace. The Find and Replace dialog will open similar to Figure . Figure . Use the Find and Replace dialog .
